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Make the Worst Website
Build the most hilariously unusable website possible. The worse it is, the better you do. Yes, we're serious.
Most hackathons reward polished demos, clean UX, & startup-shaped ideas. This one doesn't.
We want ugly websites. Confusing websites. Overbuilt websites. Websites with terrible navigation, wrong priorities, absurd logic, & just enough functionality to make the demo incredible.
Not random junk. Not lazy joke projects. Not broken HTML & a punchline.
The best builds will be funny on purpose, wrong on purpose, & real enough that everyone in the room immediately gets the bit.
Think a homepage that hides the actual point. A checkout flow nobody can finish. A portfolio site that makes you less hireable. A dashboard that reveals information in the worst possible order. A personal website with the instincts of an enemy. A product page that keeps getting more confusing the longer you use it.
That is the zone.
Theme for this edition
For this hackathon, we're narrowing the focus:
The Worst Website Ever
We want builders to make websites that are hilariously unusable but technically real.
That could mean awful UX. It could mean absurd information architecture. It could mean a beautiful amount of unnecessary complexity for something that should have been simple. It could mean a site that solves the wrong problem with complete confidence.
What matters is that the project commits.
This is not a contest for the most broken thing. It is a contest for the most impressively bad thing.
If your website makes people laugh, then lean in, then ask you to open it again, you're probably doing it right.
What to build
Build something specific. Build something committed. Build something that should obviously not exist, but still works well enough to show live.
The strongest submissions will usually have a clear premise, real behavior, & a demo that lands fast.
Maybe your site has terrible navigation. Maybe the interaction model is hostile. Maybe the whole thing is built around a premise that no sane product person would approve. Maybe it is weirdly polished in all the wrong ways.
Great.
What we're looking for
We are looking for projects with a strong bit & strong execution.
Something funny is good. Something technically real is better. The sweet spot is a website that is clearly a horrible product decision & still took real work to build.
We are not looking for safe ideas with ironic copy on top. We are not looking for generic templates pretending to be in on the joke. We are not looking for something that is only bad because it barely works.
The best entries will feel deliberate.
Format
This will be a live, in-person hackathon with demos at the end.
People show up, build all day, & present their website that night.
We'll kick things off together, spend the day building, & close with live demos, judging, & prizes.
Judging
We care about three things.
First, how wrong the idea is. Does it really commit to being a terrible website?
Second, how well it is built. Is there real effort, logic, & execution behind it?
Third, how hard the demo lands. Does the room react?
That's the game.
Who should come
Builders. Engineers. Designers. Creative technologists. Product people with bad instincts. Anyone who has ever looked at a website & thought, I could make this much worse.
You do not need a team. You do not need a polished concept. You just need an idea bad enough to be interesting & the ability to ship it.
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